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Mind Catcher Mass Market Paperback – October 7, 2003

by John Darnton (Author)

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When a thirteen-year-old boy falls victim to an accident that damages his brain, two scientists combine their ground-breaking research to push the boundaries of human consciousness. Reprint.

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448 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Onyx
Publication date

October 7, 2003
Dimensions

4.34 x 1.24 x 6.7 inches
ISBN-10

0451411056
ISBN-13

978-0451411051
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John Darnton is the bestselling author of Neanderthal and The Experiment . He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose thirty-plus-year career as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent has taken him all over the world. He is currently the Cultural News Editor of The New York Times.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Onyx; Reprint edition (October 7, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451411056
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451411051
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.34 x 1.24 x 6.7 inches

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T. Bowen

Definetly Not Robin Cook or Michael Palmer or even Clement

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2003

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John Darnton starts off well, pulls you in as a man who has already lost his beloved wife now is very close to losing his only child. The father takes his son, who fell off a cliff and has a piece of climbing equipment embedded in his forehead, to the best neurosurgeon for care. This neurosurgeon has a "God Complex", imagine that in a neurosurgeon, and he also has a co- conspirator who is both mad scientist and computer genuis/geek who is conducting experiments on how the mind travels outside the body into another existence. From there "Mind Catcher" becomes a mad-scientist science fiction nonthriller with a blunted ending that is less than satisfing. My recommendation: Skip this one and look for something by Robin Cook, Michael Palmer or Peter Clement that you haven't read yet.

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Steven L. Goldman

Fatally flawed for me.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2002

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Darnton is a good writer and explores interesting ideas in his novels, but MindCatcher is a fatally flawed story for me, praise from the NYTimes book reviewer notwithstanding. (Darnton is, perhaps coincidentally, a NYTimes editor.) The pivotal character in this novel is the young neurosurgeon Kate Willet yet her behavior is truly unbelievable and this infects the entire storyline. Fresh from 4 years of medical school and a 7 year neurosurgery residency at a major hospital, Kate is hired by the nation's, perhaps the planet's, most eminent neurosurgeon as a junior associate, but never operates once in the book and has plenty of time to mope about her apartment, suddenly discover the inhuman and unethical character of modern medicine, meet the father of the brain-damaged boy who is the vehicle of the story in bars all over Manhattan, and take it upon herself to right wrongs. Kate should have been an operating room nurse, but they work very hard, too, which still would have complicated the time problem. If that doesn't bother you, then the ending should: it's ridiculous, on a par with the ending of the film Total Recall. Suddenly, from the basement of a decrepit lunatic asylum on New York's Roosevelt Island, cyberspace becomes as crowded with consciousnesses as a subway train at rush hour. The villainous computer scientist is punished precisely as he deserves, virtue is rewarded, the morally weak but technically brilliant neurosurgeon repents and is given a second chance, the gutsy little boy recovers his brain, and the hero and heroine realize that their future is colored 'love'. I donated my copy to the public library. My recommendation is that if you insist on reading this book, take it out of your public library or borrow it.

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Audrey Anderson

No ending

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2018

I listened to this on CD. A couple of CD's in I was not too happy as I had the impression that this was going to be about the boy that was operated on for the most part. I re-read the blurb and it seems that was my impression - not specifically stated so I kept reading deciding it rated about a 3. Then more than halfway through - the boy whom was being experimented on was supposed to have been disconnected from the computers and buried - was sending a message to his dad via computer and it got real interesting and I thought I would give it a 4, maybe even a 5. The father goes into the nether world via the machinery and gets the boy back into his body. The doctor whose been helping the father goes in to bring back the father and does. That's the end of the book except for the epilogue where an operation is about to take place to repair the boys brain - no guarantees but a chance he will have somewhat of a normal life even if he is different than he was before the damage. The dad is in the waiting room when the doctors return. The End! No idea how it went. I checked to see if it was the beginning of a series - but no, it's not. Like driving ten hours to see a concert and when you get there it's canceled. Horrible way to end a book!

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2002

Mind Catcher is both a unique and intriguing tale surrounding a young teenage boy, Tyler Jessup. Tyler's father Scott, a reknowned photographer, is a single parent having tragically lost his wife in a airplane crash.
Tyler, during a rock climbing expedition with his best friend Johnny is accidentally gravely injured. Another climber above Tyler lost his purchase and dropped a metal piton which incredibly impaled the unfortunate boy's skull. Although he was quickly hospitalized he suffered severe damage to his cerebral cortices rendering him comatose. Extensive examination reveals very minimal damage to the major centers of the brain.
It is at this juncture two celebrated physicians enter the picture, Dr. Saramaggio, a conceited, affluent and immensely talented neurosurgeon and Dr. Cleaver a withdrawn research physician. Cleaver is an expert in the field of artificial intelligence. He is presently working on the isolation of the anima or soul and the plotting of it within the amygdala portion of the brain. He postulates that the anima is what differentiates the mind from the brain.
With partially informed consent Scott Jessup agrees to a radical and as of yet never performed operation to save Tyler. A sympathetic protege of Saramaggio, Dr. Kate Willett takes a deep interest in the case and counsels Scott. Saramaggio will painstakingly remove the piton from Tyler's cranium minimizing any further tissue damage. Tyler would then be hooked up to transcranial stimulator-receiver (TSR) via tiny electrodes. The TSR, a computer created by Cleaver, stimulates the brain to send messages in and receive messages coming out. The machine would be used to control and regulate the autonomic nervous system, responsible for involuntary bodily functions such as breathing. Meanwhile, Saramaggio would harvest stem cells from within Tyler's brain which would be cultured in the lab. These would be inserted back into Tyler's brain to hopefully replace the damaged brain tissue. Things seem to be going well until the TSR contraption apparently withdraws Tyler's mind from his unconscious body giving both Scott and Dr. Willett second thoughts.
Darnton does fascinating and technical job in pointing out the opposing ethical and medical considerations in such a scenario. In the cyber-age of computers within which we reside, Darnton's narrative is an important piece of literature that may portend our future.

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